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the operations, giving the results of his experience as to 

 soil, elevation, and system of cultivation found most 

 suitable in the districts under his superintendence ; and 

 appended a lucid account of the methods adopted in manu- 

 facturing green and black teas, packing tea, preparing 

 sheet lead, buildings, tea stores, implements in use, &c., 

 making also valuable suggestions for the improvement of 

 plantations" (Nassau Lees, LL.D., p. 51). 



The difficulties Jameson encountered and the great 

 results that followed his labours are thus alluded to by Col. 

 Nassau Lees, in his Cultivation of Tea in India, (p. 61): — 

 '' It is impossible, if due consideration be allowed for the 

 natural difficulties Jameson had to contend with, the 

 bigoted prejudices he had to overcome, and above all, for 

 the entire want of anything like sound local experience to 

 guide him, to over-estimate the value of Dr Jameson's 

 services in connection with the cultivation of tea in the 

 Himalaya Mountains ; and the highest credit is due to him 

 for the energetic zeal with which he pushed on, and 

 followed through all its vicissitudes, the development of 

 an experiment, of the success of which he alone from 

 the commencement never had any misgivings. A con- 

 scientious discharge of his duty, and a high sense of the 

 great natural importance of the interesting experiment 

 which he had been entrusted by Government to superin- 

 tend, were doubtless the main incentives to Dr Jameson's 

 exertions ; at the same time (says Col. Nassau Lees) it is 

 proper to record the great value of his services to tea in- 

 terests in North-West India, and to point out to those who 

 are now profiting so largely by his labours, the great obli- 

 gation they are under to him. In the complete success 

 which finally crowned Dr Jameson's labours, he had his 

 reward, and though, from the general distrust in his prog- 

 nostications, and the consequent shyness of private specu- 

 lators to aid in the experiment, he had the mortification to 

 see other parts of India (Assam and Cachar) shoot ahead 

 of the districts under his superintendence, it must have 

 been gratifying to him that experience has verified in all 

 important particulars the principles laid down by him in 

 1847, when tea cultivation was almost in its infancy, and 

 a satisfaction to him that tea planters in all parts of India 



